RONAN FARROW BREAKS HIS SILENCE, RESPONDS TO NBC ALLEGATIONS

Ronan Farrow (second from left) said his estranged father,
Woody Allen, molested his sister Dylan.

Journalist Ronan Farrow is finally providing a more detailed answer to why he took his reporting on Harvey Weinstein away from NBC News.

Farrow hinted when the story was published in The New Yorker last fall that executives at NBC News were less than amenable to publishing the piece. Just last week, former NBC investigative producer Rich McHugh claimed that NBC executives personally ordered him and Farrow to avoid interviewing one of Weinstein’s alleged victims and to stand down on the story altogether. (RELATED: Former Producer: NBC Execs Tried To Block Farrow’s Weinstein Investigation)

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In response to a long memo sent to staff by NBC News chairman Andy Lack on Monday night, Farrow said that NBC is peddling “false or misleading statements.”

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Among the allegations in the letter, Lack states that Farrow had no on-the-record sources willing to accuse Weinstein of misconduct.

“We spent eight months pursuing the story, but at the end of that time, NBC News — like many others before us — still did have a single victim or witness willing to go on record,” Lack wrote.

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Farrow disputed that notion, writing, “Their list of sources is incomplete and omits women who were either identified in the NBC story or offered to be.”

He added, “The suggestion to take the story to another outlet was first raised by NBC, not me, and I took them up on it only after it became clear that I was being blocked from further reporting.”

Emily Nestor, a Weinstein accuser, backed up Farrow’s version of events, indicating that her and one other woman were willing to go on-record while the story was still at...

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